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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 22:08:27 2023 No.28577263 View View Reply Original Report

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Does anyone else find themselves silently waiting for the world to go to shit? I'm fairly certain of an immanent economic collapse followed by the bloodiest war mankind has ever seen, and I think it has me sort of bogged down. How do you all find motivation in your lives?

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:33:56 No.28578646 Report

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Bump

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:56:43 No.28578795 Report

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You don't need to believe in an optimistic future to be invested in it. Instead, you sound stuck because you're trapped in a prediction of one maximally pessimistic future. But maybe you can find investment in a less pessimistic, yet still rough and tough future. Basically, move closer from doomer toward prepper. While we all still die if we happen to be in the worst timeline, you can come out ahead if we happen to be in the other not as bad timelines.

Pessimistic temperaments do feel useless during times of plenty. But my metaphor for them is humanity's "soil seed bank"; nature's backup plan for forest fires. All the full grown oaks laugh at those buried acorns that stay underground until they rot. In a timeline without forest fires, those acorns sure look dumb. But if you step back and look at all the possibilities, you can see those timelines where those acorns had their moment and repopulated after a catastrophe. Their value can only really be appreciated from a theoretical perspective, or god's eye view.

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 03:12:50 No.28578866 Report

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yeah. i think most people are in this boat right now.

i’ve been mostly motivated by fear lately. fear that i’ll be laid off or my company will be bankrupt. so i’ve been working my ass off at my job to seem like the more valuable employee while also building up my resume and portfolio. sending applications to other jobs in hopes for higher pay. reducing any unnecessary expenses and tucking away my savings. buying groceries with more mileage for its buck. just stuff like that.

strangely enough i also ended up splurging on things i think would be rarer in the future or things i feel i might not have the chance to have again if shit goes down. i guess it lends a sense of normalcy although it’s pretty dumb and counterintuitive to my prepping plans.

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 03:13:04 No.28578867 Report

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I am not concerned with destruction of the planet, I just want to see cool shit. I'm more worried about personally dying. The way I see it half of my life is already over and I fucked it up so far. Everything sucks. So the second half had better be moderately interesting at least.

Then I see people living all over the place just being mediocre and think about how being human is just like being like any other domesticated animal. Life is a fucking treadmill dude. If you find something that makes you feel like you aren't walking up a mountain to your death then you should be grateful. I have no idea what all these other people feel.

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 03:21:39 No.28578912 Report

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So someone could drop the nukes tomorrow. You could also get hit by a car tomorrow. There’s nothing you can do about either of those possibilities, so it’s completely pointless to think about it. Of course both are possible, yet we don’t act act as if we’re dying tomorrow. We buy groceries for next week, we go to classes/work, we do the various things that make up our lives. Because think about it: if we do die, nothing was lost except a few moments of hedonism - we lived productive and honorable lives while we could. Whereas, if we act as if we’re dying and then we don’t, then we suddenly find ourselves with no groceries for next week and no job and no accomplishments, having spent all day sitting around in misery for no reason. Would you rather be the guy who gave away all his stuff in 1999 because he thought the world was ending and wound up destitute, or the guy who spent every day living to the fullest with the future in mind and then unexpectedly died in the twin towers?

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